Adjective : an inflammable disposition. From Dictionary.com.
Another defect is the volatility and inflammability of carbon bisulphide. From Wordnik.com. [The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics] Reference
The objection of inflammability of the lifting power has also been overcome. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
There is too much warmth, enthusiasm, versatility and inflammability about this combination. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
Lighting fittings bearing a furniture mark may be fitted on materials of normal or little inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference
European to imagine, and still more difficult to understand, the inflammability of the unruly, or rather unbridled, passions of an. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
The same applies to furniture fittings with discharge lamps, if the inflammability of the respective piece of furniture is not known. From Wordnik.com. [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference
Where oil is heated it is more or less inflammable, and, in fact, inflammability is only a question of temperature of the oil, after all. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
It then takes up practical considerations as to the danger of explosions, including the relative inflammability of old and fresh coal dust. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171] Reference
It is advisable to use the cellulose nitrated only just enough to render it suitable, in order to reduce the inflammability of the finished product. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
It is well known that flame travels through any inflammable gas at a certain definite rate of speed, depending on the degree of inflammability of the gas. From Wordnik.com. [Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon] Reference
It has fair insulating properties, and may be obtained in a variety of forms, but has now been generally abandoned for electrical work on account of its inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [On Laboratory Arts] Reference
It is also used in fireworks on account of its inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference
This narrow inflammability range makes PNG one of the safest fuels in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Once, in the startling inflammability of his blood, his veins ran hot, and he smiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Mme. de Brecourt seize this nuance; she embraced the idea with her quick inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [The Reverberator] Reference
We find that it differs in respect to its purity, and also in respect to its inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
They have to be ventilated specially, on account of the high inflammability of the celluloid composition. From Wordnik.com. [The Film Mystery] Reference
If we wish the celibate to respect marriage, married people ought to have some regard for the inflammability of bachelors. From Wordnik.com. [The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2] Reference
It is the special peril of the young lover of life, that an inflammability to beauty in women is in a breath intense with him. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
From what we have seen of Goethe's inflammability, we are prepared for the naïve remark in which he records his new sensation. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Goethe] Reference
"Under-ordinary circumstances, picrate of potash although not MORE inflammable than common powder, yet possesses the same degree of inflammability.". From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor, diary of J.R. Kazallon, passenger] Reference
"Under ordinary circumstances, picrate of potash although not more inflammable than common powder, yet possesses the same degree of inflammability.". From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference
Layson, less conscious of their peril because less well informed as to the almost explosive inflammability of dry pine-tops, took the matter less seriously. From Wordnik.com. [In Old Kentucky] Reference
In the comfort of our own people we say things that'd start a riot if said in public, and what's more we're not aware of the inflammability of our thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Watkins in speaking of the inflammability of the human body remarks that on one occasion he tried to consume the body of a pirate given to him by a U.S. Marshal. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Some venial sins are graver than others and less pardonable, and this difference is well signified by the difference in the inflammability of wood, hay, and stubble. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Watkins 9.194 in speaking of the inflammability of the human body remarks that on one occasion he tried to consume the body of a pirate given to him by a U.S. Marshal. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Stahl, the author of this theory, asserted that there is a principle of inflammability, to which he gave the name phlogiston, having the quality of uniting with substances. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science] Reference
He has one foible, an excessive inflammability of temper, but he feels it when it comes on, and has resolution enough to suppress it, and to remain silent till it passes over. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference
The great quantity of coal and of hydrogen which enter into the compolition of indigo, account for its prompt inflammability, and the brifli detonation it produces with nitre. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of the Art of Dyeing] Reference
Our representative of temperate notions demurely consented that the Arab's pride of inflammability should insist on the prudery of the veil as the civilizing medium of his race. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
MORE inflammable than common powder, yet possesses the same degree of inflammability.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Survivors of the Chancellor] Reference
A considerable quantity of limpid fluid, distinctly impregnated with gin, both to the sense of smell and taste, and even to the test of inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
“Remember our good John’s inflammability. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
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